[PATCH 2/3] mm/vmalloc: Improve vfree() kerneldoc

From: Andrey Ryabinin
Date: Fri Sep 14 2018 - 09:05:12 EST


vfree() might sleep if called not in interrupt context. Explain
that in the comment.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/vmalloc.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index a728fc492557..d00d42d6bf79 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -1577,6 +1577,8 @@ void vfree_atomic(const void *addr)
* have CONFIG_ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG, but making the calling
* conventions for vfree() arch-depenedent would be a really bad idea)
*
+ * May sleep if called *not* from interrupt context.
+ *
* NOTE: assumes that the object at @addr has a size >= sizeof(llist_node)
*/
void vfree(const void *addr)
--
2.16.4